plangency

Example Sentences

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His piano sound tends to the percussive, achieving a relatively thin but tactile plangency.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2016

In fact, her work — notwithstanding its overall plangency — could initially be mistaken for light verse.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2016

But Led Zeppelin tunes formed the backbone of the show, bringing out not only the most roisterous crowd response but also a higher order of plangency and presence from Mr. Plant.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2014

When Peter Frampton shows up with his Les Paul guitar on “Right Back Home,” his easy heat and plangency marks him as an alien life-form.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2012

Her voice had a pleasant plangency, a quality of more yet to come and as if the wells of her vitality were far from drained.

From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie